ZERO HEDGE – Two coalition personnel, including an American, were killed and five others wounded late on March 29, when a roadside bomb exploded in northern Syria, the U.S. military said Friday (…) A Department of Defense official in Washington said one of the two killed was an American service member and the other was of another nationality that the official would not specify.

STRATEGIC CULTURE – Not all of Russia’s game-changing weapons were mentioned in the president’s landmark speech that the mainstream media keep writing so much about. The president’s address simply could not include all the numerous breakthroughs in military technology Russia has achieved recently. Some cutting-edge systems exist but are not yet operational. A few are already part of the Russian arsenal, although in rather small numbers. But that’s just a start. Many achievements have flown under the media’s radar and deserve more exposure. The information available from public sources is worth discussing to get an idea of where things seem to be headed. CONTINUE READING

DAILY MAIL – US officials have sounded a growing alarm about the potential threat from hypersonic weapons – those that can travel at five times the speed of sound or more. CONTINUE READING

ELECTRONIC INTIFADA – The now-deleted tweet from the official @IDFSpokesperson account stated: Nothing was carried out uncontrolled; everything was accurate and measured, and we know where every bullet landed.”